HANG TIME! College sport
Sports Breakfast Celebration
The aim of this celebration is to honour and award those students who have shown strong character and commitment, who have a great attitude, have participated in all aspects and contributed strongly. Secondly, it is also to honour our volunteers, coaches and managers which is incredibly important. We had a great morning with around 70 members of our community celebrating.
Squash
The highlight of the year was attending the NZ Secondary Schools Squash Championships where 50 teams competed. This was a significant opportunity for our students, each of whom played with increasing skill and confidence. The boys’ team finished in 31st and the girls team came 7th. Grace Burnard was selected to join the Central Squash Junior squad. Emma Burnard and Sayge Wikohika were both part of the winning Ohakune Squash Club D Grade Women’s team, winning the Central Squash title. Their team then went to the National D Grade Women’s competition finishing 2nd. Jayden Bailey, won the title of Ohakune Squash Club Men’s D grade champion, then Central Squash Men’s D grade champion, and then NZ Men’s D grade champion.
Boys’ Rugby
This year was the year that could have been for the under-16 rugby team. The team performed strongly throughout the season, however, results did not go our way.We are steadily improving and becoming a stronger team. Our aim is to make the final in the years ahead. Thank you to all those parents who supported and offered help this year.
Snow Academy
This year we had two groups in the Snow Academy, both were hosted at Turoa. The focus was freestyle skill progression, rather than any competitive aspects. This season also saw an exciting progression with the instructor training programmes available to students. We had some students prove successful and became level 1 ski/snowboarding instructors. Thanks to the students for still smiling, being on time, upholding the values of ROCK and representing our school.
Girls’ Rugby
2020 was a tough year. We had only four experienced players in our team and the rest were developing junior girls with limited knowledge but big hearts. The girls showed real resilience, playing games without any subs and coming up against girls much older and bigger than themselves. Thank you, WayneThomas Te Huia for your commitment, inspiration and coaching, instilling in us the passion for team sport and showing us what it takes to be a rugby wha¯nau.
Football
The football programme was greatly affected by the restrictions placed upon us. For the first time in 15 years St Bernard’s from Lower Hutt did not tour the Central North Island and so that fixture was abandoned. For the juniors, we had a number of games lined up against local opposition which could not go ahead. Despite this, a hard core of Year 9 and 10 players showed up each Thursday evening throughout term 3. They all worked hard to improve their basic skills and understanding of the game. The weather was often wet, cold and windy, but this did not deter the players from getting out and having a go. Let’s hope that next season we are able to play some games and put our training into action.
Waka Ama
We had a large number of students interested in Waka Ama this year and had to cap our crews at two junior under-16 boys’ crews, one under-16 girls’ crew, and one under-19 girls’ crew. The 2020 college waka ama crews had their first taste of racing at a regional regatta hosted by Raukotahi on March 7. This event involved local clubs and secondary college teams. The day also provided novice crews with an insight of the intensity of racing, and gave them an opportunity to respond to an unexpected capsizing, which they reacted to quickly.
We proudly acknowledged the students for their great efforts representing the college and the Waimarino community.
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by Sport Whanganui.